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But there are some things president putin can go for and negotiate, and theres his off-ramp. >> so, peter, i mean, we know from the president that he has said these things to vladimir putin outside of preparing sanctions and messaging that hes given to putin himself. what is the biden administration doing to get ready for whatever inevitability there is here? >> for weeks youve seen the biden administration provide additional weaponry to ukraine. theyve tried to expose russian plots to create a ...

National interest it americans. >> bret: howie, its also an important time for media and the press there is a lot of disinformation, especially coming from russia about false flags, about ukraine threatening to invade russia, which is not the case. but, reporting has to go through certain source when you say are dealing with war and life and death. >> yeah, i mean it has been extraordinary to try to balance what president biden is saying and what vladimir putin is saying moscow has been spew ago...

Threatening because the calculus weve heard from the white house, from the pentagon over the last several weeks is that russia might want to use this again as some sort of pretext. so putin will be able to say as he has said repeatedly even using the word genocide he needs to move his troops into eastern ukraine in order to protect the russian-speaking population there is and this as you mentioned were starting to see more and more u.s. troops moving into the region. we havent heard a shift from...

Russia, women, children and the elderly first, because he claimed the ukrainian army is about to launch an all-out war. >> defies basic logic to believe the ukrainians would choose this moment with well over 150,000 troops on its borders to escalate a year-long conflict. >> reporter: instead, ukraine accuses the separatists, who are armed and led by the kremlin of firing on ukrainian territory in an attempt to bait the ukrainian army into a response. the separatists control an enclave about the ...

Keep coming, but whether or not that happens, communities here are already trapped in a war of attrition. and across the front line, in the breakaway capital of donetsk, sirens wailing after the authorities announced women and children would be evacuated to russia. separatist leader denis pushilin said the operation was arranged on friday the 18th, because ukraine would soon attack. but a bbc analysis of the metadata shows this footage was recorded two days earlier. video has emerged showing sma...

To them tlooer weeks ago for arms control? >> reporter: what we are seeing is, unfortunately, still very negative. were oseeing an increase to the north, east, and to the southern borders of ukraine. were seeing the instance that you reported on earlier on in the show, which we know have been used in the past for pretext for invasion. were seeing lots of the things that i think everyone would regard as negative but were not seeing any of the things we would want to see to indicate that theyre se...

Ended there in 2015 ceasefire. the u.s. and allies say it could be the pretext russia uses to justify invasion. >> live on the ground in kyiv, hello to you there, trey. >> shannon, good afternoon. today leaders of separatist-held territory in eastern ukraine are evacuating civilians to russia, claiming that ukraine plans to launch an attack. officials say no such offensive is planned and analysts worry it could be laying the ground work for president putin to have the pretext to launch an invasi...

As a pretext to invade ukraine. our correspondent orla guerin has been to the front line village of trudivske and sent this report. an increasingly grim horizon in eastern ukraine. we headed to the front lines, where shelling has intensified. a prelude, perhaps, to much worse to come. the village of trudivske is in the line of fire. emotions were rawjust hours after shells rained down. alexander basilev is lucky to be alive. he was at home with his wife when a shell landed in their garden. they ...

The self—declared peoples republics of donetsk and luhansk have been fighting the ukrainian army in the east for the past 8 years, in a conflict that has claimed more than 1a,000 lives. the west fears president putin couild use an incident in the separatist republics as a pretext to invade ukraine. our correspondent orla guerin has been to the frontline village of trudivske and sent this report. an increasingly grim horizon in eastern ukraine. we headed to the front lines, where shelling has i...

This is bbc news. the headlines... concern that russia may be about to launch a major war in europe is dominating talks between western leaders at the munich security conference in germany. the european commission president ursula von der leyen accused moscow of a "blatant attempt to rewrite the rules of the international order". russian—backed separatists in eastern ukraine have declared a full military mobilisation, after two days of heavy shelling across the ceasefire line with the ukrainia...